Yahoo is taking Geocities offline (and removing all associated data for it) tomorrow. In the meantime, some web historians are trying to archive it for posterity:

Scott and his Archive Team are working to rescue GeoCities by downloading as much of its content as possible — which they estimate to be around ten terabytes. These historians recognize GeoCities as having played a critical role in the development of the Internet. Rather than protesting Yahoo's financially motivated decision, doing fundraising to "Save GeoCities!", or signing online petitions, these data hoarders have taken an active role not in preventing the inevitable but in mitigating its damage by preserving GeoCities in a format protected from further corporate terminations.

Kind of a directed internet archive. People laugh about things like Geocities, but I think there's some value in looking at how things started on the net - and since Geocities dates to 1994, it's an example of "how things were" - especially for any sites that were quickly put up and then forgotten...

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